Jane Birkin paired her beaded costume with a basket. Madonna in Jean-Paul Gaultier conical bra and garter set. Kristen Stewart barefoot in Chanel chainmail. Spike Lee in a sunset-inspired swimsuit.
The Cannes Movie Competition, with its preponderance of pink carpets and boardwalk picture alternatives, its blockbusters and artwork movies, has given the world extra indelible vogue moments than another competition. In 2002, Sharon Stone made so many dramatic red carpet entrances as a member of the Cannes jury, she managed to revive her flagging profession via the facility of garments alone.
This competition, held on the French Riviera, takes place from Could 14th to twenty fifth this yr. The beginning was glamorous – and a few contributors launched the style problem even earlier than the official opening ceremony on Tuesday evening.
The actress Anya Taylor-Joy, who’s in Cannes to advertise “Furiosa,” the newest “Mad Max” movie, prompted a sensation when she stepped out on Monday in a Jacquemus straw hat so large it doubled as a conveyable parasol. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig, whose job as competition competitors jury president means packing 10 days’ price of garments, stopped by a photograph shoot on Tuesday morning carrying an hourglass-effect milkmaid costume with blue and white stripes straight from the final Maison Margiela haute couture collection.
In truth, what makes the Cannes Movie Competition so irresistible is that it isn’t only a parade of grandiose robes and tuxedos, but additionally a panoply of accessible solar type.
The parade actually started with the opening ceremony, which was attended by stars resembling Léa Seydoux, Jane Fonda, Lily Gladstone and Meryl Streep, who was honored with the Palme d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award. As vogue editor Miranda Priestly in “The Satan Wears Prada,” Streep gave the world an outline of the ripple impact of vogue that has but to be surpassed. Right now the Côte d’Azur, tomorrow your closet? It is not as far-fetched because it appears.
